"How about you open that heart of yours a little to me?"

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"Have we met?"

Beomgyu finally releasing the words that he's been contemplating to say as he wasn't sure if he was in the right position to do so.

I mean, they just met right?

As if time had stopped for the two, Ryujin remained silent in confusion and shock because of how much of she saw in her new seat mate.

His voice, his eyes, his smile.

Everything. It looked similar to him.

Her lips parted, eyes flickering between those two familiar pupils in front of her; the girl wanted to say so much but didn't want to make a fool of herself, plus she wasn't one to believe it so easily.

Something in her chest started to beat slower as relief took over her mind. It was strange that she felt calmer and safer to be near him.

It was until she heard a sigh cut her string of weird ideas to stop her daydreaming- a sigh that had a sense of disappointment underlying it.

"Sorry... um, the name's Beomgyu."

Beomgyu scratched his nape, chuckling at himself for asking such a ridiculous question, when it was only her first day in this school.

Nodding her head, she cleared her throat as she could feel an awkward tension build up between them- "Shin Ryujin."

The flustered girl quickly turned her head and began to scribble down in her notebook, trying her hardest to dismiss those ideas to appear again.

That was, after she chanced another glance into his dark ebony eyes.

+×+

The bell had rung indicating for students to take a break from their lesson. However, Ryujin had her head down, arms hiding her face as she remained still in her dreams- of nothing.

She had dreams of her just seeing nothing, often whenever she slept during the day she saw nothing but sometimes would be there.

But, that was when she would sleep at night is when she would see .

Ryujin!

"Ryujin!"

The girl, soul filled with tiredness, finally looked up to see her friends ready at the door saying that they were going to the convenience store at their school- which was downstairs.

Ryujin fixed herself and unconsciously looked to her side to check if her seat mate was there. She stared at the empty seat wondering why she was so curious onto who he was.

Shaking her head, she joined her friends as they told her, Jieun was going to join them and- of course she didn't find any reason to decline.

+×+

Beomgyu had told the rest of his friends to go to the cafeteria before him since he needed to take trip to the bathroom, not forgetting to tell Yeonjun to get him his snack.

Whilst walking to meet with his mates, he couldn't stop thinking about Ryujin looked whilst she was sleeping: strands of hair poking out and despite the sun in her eyes she managed to sleep.

He tried to atleast wake her up so the teacher wouldn't scold her but that resulted into her changing her position, scaring him abit by the sudden movement. So, instead he covered her from the teacher's view by placing a book in front, hoping for the best.

"Beomgyu!" He raised his head and searched through the crowd to see them- sitting with the new transfer students.

They're already close?

Taking his seat, he smiled to the girls earning a gentle smile back from them. "Yah, hyung! Did you get it?" He stared at the boy next to him, getting a scoff as Yeonjun still couldn't believe he came last.

"I'll enjoy it, hyung- you better! Gosh, I was saving my money aswell!"

The pinkish-haired boy snapped back, acting like a toddler causing a tantrum leading for some laughter to start on the table.

Eating his snack joyfully, Beomgyu diverted his attention to the person beside him wanting to initiate a conversation- only now noticing he was sitting next to .

She sat legs crossed, having her head in the clouds, her earphones plugged in whilst eating her mocha bread. She seemed peaceful by herself, just lightly bopping her head to the song and had a content smile, munching on her food.

In the corner of her eye, she seemed to sense someone and her eyes then met his. Ryujin's smile faded and her expression changed as if she was waiting for him to say anything.

Although she knew the bright boy was about to finish his food to start talking, Ryujin put her focus back onto her screen, not wanting to show her face to him as those ideas would flood her mind and she felt that they were too awkward to start chatting.

"Sorry, she isn't that talkative to start off with." A girl with sharp eyes full of sympathy, apologised but Beomgyu didn't seem to be bothered by Ryujin's distant actions.

It only made him want to stick closer to her.